Hindu Kush

By Y.L. Harris

From the first page of this romantic intrigue, you are ducking bullets in the Persian Gulf. It is full of thrills and harrowing escapes and set against the backdrop of the Soviet occupation of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879493046
• ISBN13: 9780879493042
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ashley Books
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 6.0"

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Review of HINDU KUSH

HINDU KUSH is a political thriller set in Afghanistan in1981.Y. L. Harris has masterly woven together a story ofinternational intrigue that centers around Ali Kamal, son of the recently assassinated royal president, who leads the resistance against the present corrupt government and Soviet occupation.The Hindu Kush are the rugged mountains of Afghanistan in which bloody guerrilla battles take place and where, during a cease-fire, Kamal ends up nursing back to health an American photographer, Sarah Jamison, who had been injured after having become separated from her college group.Though Kamal is American educated, honor, culture, and a deep sense of his country's history are deeply ingrained in him while at the same time, he dreams of modernizing his country. Sarah is, well, American. There is a culture clash of monumental proportions as Ali and Sarah get to know each other. They fall in love anyway. The kind of love that doesn't get any deeper. The kind that hurts so much when they have to be apart, for they never know if they will see each other again because of the very real possibility that either of them may well end up dead.She chooses to stay with Kamal despite the peril that threatens to erupt all around them while he strategizes a coup d'etat. Kamal must anticipate when the current president will be most vulnerable. He must negotiate with the crazed leader of a renegade group and with the cunning Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan.Kamal's greatest fear occurs when Sarah is kidnapped, and in his desperation to see her alive again, he has no choice but to place his trust in a despised enemy.Plot twists and overwhelming danger will keep your mind guessing and your heart hammering, and after you have lived vicariously through the main characters in their heroic efforts to succeed and survive, you will be frazzled. HINDU KUSH will dog your mind for days afterwards.

Review of HINDU KUSH

HINDU KUSH is a political thriller set in Afghanistan in 1981.Y. L. Harris has masterly woven together a story of international intrigue that centers around Ali Kamal, son of the recently assassinated royal president, who leads the resistance against the present corrupt government and Soviet occupation.The Hindu Kush are the rugged mountains of Afghanistan in which bloody guerrilla battles take place and where, during a cease-fire, Kamal ends up nursing back to health an American photographer, Sarah Jamison, who had been injured after having become separated from her college group.Though Kamal is American educated, honor, culture, and a deep sense of his country's history are deeply ingrained in him while at the same time, he dreams of modernizing his country. Sarah is, well, American. There is a culture clash of monumental proportions as Ali and Sarah get to know each other. They fall in love anyway. The kind of love that doesn't get any deeper. The kind that hurts so much when they have to be apart, for they never know if they will see each other again because of the very real possibility that either of them may well end up dead.She chooses to stay with Kamal despite the peril that threatens to erupt all around them while he strategizes a coup d'etat. Kamal must anticipate when the current president will be most vulnerable. He must negotiate with the crazed leader of a renegade group and with the cunning Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan.Kamal's greatest fear occurs when Sarah is kidnapped, and in his desperation to see her alive again, he has no choice but to place his trust in a despised enemy.Plot twists and overwhelming danger will keep your mind guessing and your heart hammering, and after you have lived vicariously through the main characters in their heroic efforts to succeed and survive, you will be frazzled. HINDU KUSH will dog your mind for days afterwards.

Exciting inetrnational thriller

In 1981 Afghanistan, rebel leader Ali Kamal has two goals. The personal goal is to avenge the death of his father. The loftier goal is to drive the Russians and their puppets out of the country. The American educated, grandson of the former king, Ali has organized the Mujahideen into a powerful fighting team that has caused much trouble for his enemies. Sarah Jamison is the blue-blooded daughter of the American ambassador to Burma. She is vacationing in Pakistan when she inadvertently crosses the border into Afghanistan. Kamal and his forces find her wandering lost. Soon she joins his troops as a photographer bringing the war home to the world. Kamal and Sarah begin to fall in love with one another. His side is upset that their leader would consider an infidel as an equal. Her side has the CIA and several other shadowy agencies wanting to "rescue" her. HINDU KUSH is a fabulous political thriller that focuses on the Afghani insurrection of the early 1980's. The exciting story line is filled with multi-faceted high voltage tension that never eases up even as the audience gains an understanding of what occurred. The lead characters are a wonderful duo, seeking a place to forge a relationship while the world stage seeks to separate them. Filled with torrid romance, powerful battle scenes, and international intrigue, HINDU KUSH is must reading for fans of political thrillers, who will demand more works from Y.L. Harris.